passover v. valentine’s day
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eat my shorts, cupid

Posted on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 | No Comments

on hearing me deride valentine’s day as a horrible, commercial, marketing creation, my boyfriend made the argument, that “hey, at least it’s not passover, now there’s something to hate. the oppression, the supernatural terrorism, the absurd dietary restrictions.”
i tried to explain to him that passover and valentine’s day were pretty incomparable holidays, but thought that […]

un-planned pregnancy is the new laughtrack
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get your rosaries off my ovaries

Posted on Thursday, February 7th, 2008 | No Comments

there’s a lot to love about juno, the latest in un-planned pregnancy flicks to grace the silver screen.  first and second, it has the sweet-cheeked ellen page and michael cera, whose dialogue primarily consists of adorable self-effacing comments.  third, it has just the right amount of righteousness mixed with its nonchalance.  but fourth (and mostly) it’s just really funny.
so i […]

what’s black and white and read all over?
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it only took me 1.5 years to make the local paper

Posted on Friday, February 1st, 2008 | No Comments

yes, yes. that’s me on the right.  at a roe v. wade anniversary party with jessica valenti, founder of feministing.com, author of full frontal feminism and all around alpha-femme.  it’s the picture in the metro-section of the nytimes today accompany this awesome article:
Feminists Find Unity is Elusive
i’ll be signing autographs after work today.